Toilet-fan



T A R R I m S 0 u M d 0 M 0 mm TOILET PAN.

Patented Nov 22 1881,

far/anion- UNITED STATES PATENT Orricn.

JAMES O. STIRRAT, OF BROOKLYN, E. 1)., NEW YORK.

TOILET-FAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,013, dated November 22, 1881. Application filed July 15, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, J AMES CAMPB LL STIR- RAT, ofBrooklyn, E. D., in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Revolving Fan, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved fan which can also be used as a new and very amusing toy.

The invention consists in a fan made ofa circular or polygonal sheet of pasteboard, metal, orothersuitable material,suitablyornamented, and pivoted on the fan stick or handle so as to revolve freely on its pivot.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a front view of my revolving fan. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a rear view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A fan, A, made of pasteboard, metal, stiffened canvas or muslin, or any other suitable material, and having a circular or polygonal shape, is pivoted to the fan handle or stick B. This fan-handle may be slotted or cut longitudinally, as shown, and the fan passed into this cut and then pivoted, as shown, or the fan may be pivoted against the outside of the handle; but the construction with the cut in the stick is preferred.

The pivot U need not necessarily be at the end of the stick B, but can be set back from the end of the same, this end being tapered so as to form a pointer, D.

The front of the fan A is ornamented in any suitable manner, or has advertisements painted or printed thereon. The opposite side of the fan may be plain or ornamented in any desired manner. Preferably it is provided with a central ring, E, and a series of radial lines, 13 F, dividing it into-a number of equal or unequal spaces, G, which may contain advertisements, &c or these spaces may contain mottoes, verses, names, letters, 850., or pictures of animals, nursery scenes, &c. It will afford children and others much amusement to revolve the fan and observe to which space G the pointer D points when the fan stops.

A plain or ornamental metal pointer may be provided at the upper end of the handle, or the pointer may be made in one with the pivot or rivet by which the fan is pivoted to the handle.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure byLetters Patent 1. The combination, with the fan, sheet, or plate A, of the stick or handle B, having pointer D, and of the pivot O, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with the fan, sheet, or plate subdivided into spaces G by radial lines F, of a stick or handle, B, having pointer D, and of the pivot O, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purposes set forth.

OSCAR F. Guru, 0. SEDGWIOK. 

